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Portland Saturday Market is celebrating its 41st year in the historic Old Town/ Chinatown neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.  Our weekly market features 252 booths showcasing a variety of arts & crafts sold by local Pacific Northwest artisans. Established in 1976, our market has a thriving membership of over 300 artisans.  "Every Saturday and Sunday from March through Christmas Eve the Old Town/Chinatown neighborhood transforms into a thriving arts and crafts open-air marketplace. Seeing the Market's staff delegate booth spaces with precision each weekend for so many years, most of the neighborhood has come to think of Portland Saturday Market as a business like any other. But it certainly was not always that way, and some surprising elements still lie at the core of this unusual non-profit operation."

I love this! I love farmer's market, but this is more than just a farmer's market. It has many crafted art and different artists participated. It also create a lot of energy in downtown during Saturday morning. Kind of feel more like a big local gathering.

At the heart of Portland's popular culture for more than a century, the Rose Festival has its roots in tradition, with inspired programming that embraces both the contemporary and the nostalgic. Visionary city leaders started the festival during the first decade of the 20th Century to put Portland on the map and brand it "the summer capital of the world."

Celebrating over 100 years At the heart of Portland's popular culture for more than a century, the Rose Festival has its roots in tradition, with inspired programming that embraces both the contemporary and the nostalgic. Visionary city leaders started the festival during the first decade of the 20th Century to put Portland on the map and brand it "the summer capital of the world."

As a nexus for labor and shipping in the Pacific Northwest, Portland often had the repute of a rugged, rough and tumble town, more than willing to allow the miners, loggers, and fishermen an opportunity to part with their hard earned cash in whatever debaucherous manner they chose. Historian Doug Crispin will lead a tour around that will explain all the dirty details that lay behind some of these historic places, and take you back into the history of Portland, which has always big one of the bigger port cities in the world, filled with some good little secrets.

Founded in late 1892, the Portland Art Museum is the seventh oldest museum in the United States and the oldest in the Pacific Northwest. The Museum is internationally recognized for its permanent collection and ambitious special exhibitions, drawn from the Museum's holdings and the world's finest public and private collections.

Portland Fashion Week showcases local designers and retailers in juried runway shows with live music at the Oregon Convention Center and satellite locations. Repeats in Sept.

Great resource! Tonight was the opening. And I found their Facebook and there are more information and pictures. I like it! https://www.facebook.com/fashionweekportland

These two contemporary Oregon artists offer two substantially different but equally innovative approaches to figurative art. Hamilton, born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1972, found her true home when she moved to Portland in 1996. After painting for almost twenty years, her artistic practice was transformed when she visited a non-traditional textile arts exhibition. From there she was inspired to fuse the two parts of her life that were closest to her-her daily urban environment and her grandmother's tradition of crochet. Often portraying friends and co-workers from her days in the food-service industry, Hamilton's work displays a whimsical and affectionate vision of working-class Portland. As her work has progressed, she has taken on other subjects as well, including mug shots from Multnomah County, industrial landscapes of Portland, and full-figure nudes.

The Willamette Valley Music Festival is an exciting annual event held on the UO campus during the ASUO Spring Street Faire. The festival is planned by student coordinators for the students of UO and the community at large. WVMF features three stages, live music and cultural workshops. We focus on sustainability to produce a zero waste event. The WVMF is dedicated to enriching the cultural experience of Oregonians by showcasing new artists and ideas. MAY 10, 2014 12:00pm - 1:00am FREE ADMISSION 12 Bands | 3 Stages | UO Campus

Wampire After forming Wampire, Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps steadily began to make a name for themselves in the same Portland, OR, scene that has produced labelmates STRFKR as well as Unknown Mortal Orchestra. It makes sense, then, that Wampire came to Polyvinyl's attention when the duo opened for STRFKR at a hometown Portland show and that UMO's bassist Jacob Portrait produced Wampire's debut full-length, Curiosity.

Historic Music Venue located in Portland, Oregon Lindsey Stirling is musician who combines violen music with Dubstep.

Compound Gallery & Store : - Current Show Future Artwork Art Prints Past Nike Sneakers, Portland Art Gallery, Sneakers This place is mostly known for their clothes and shoes but also have a wide selection of art pieces that fit Portlandians

Portland Opera exists to inspire, challenge and uplift our audiences by creating productions of high artistic quality that celebrate the beauty and breadth of opera. I saw POGO in eugene at a elementary school I work with. They were amazing and had the kids create there own opera and then preformed it for them.

Risk/Reward is dedicated to the advancement and proliferation of the Art of Performance. Founded by artists and located in Portland, Oregon, we champion new and experimental theater, dance, music and performance events as a vital cultural force in our community. Our actions strive to: Increase access to the diverse forms of contemporary performance, while deepening public appreciation and support for performance works of all kinds. Support the creation of new, significant, innovative performances that both challenge and reflect the values of our community. Cultivate passionate and engaged audiences that are hungry for adventurous performance work with connections to a global arts and culture dialogue. Promote intersections between diverse artistic disciplines, while forging connections between local, regional, national, and international artistic communities. Provide direct, meaningful opportunities for audiences to interact with artists, investigate their ideas, learn about their methods of creation and support their ongoing careers.

This is the last thursday of May art opening at the Goodfoot featuring artists such as Ali Schlicting, Christopher Kelleher, and Julie Costanzo. These artists focus a lot on abstract contemporary artworks, which are very unique and colorful. Ali states she was trying to convey a story through her artwork. Christopher was trying to capture light in different manners on figures. Julie incorporates oil paintings into her works, clearly giving a diverse range of meticulously chosen artworks for a great show.

The time has come, it will be starting June 5 and go on until June 15. There will be three separate events throughout the week, all of which will be a little different. The whole beer community in Portland will be participating, everything from bars to pizza parlors. Three bigger events within the week will be the Fruity Beer Fest, which will be June 7-9. Then there will be the Rye Beer Fest, on June 13. Finishing of with the Beer And Cheese Festival, on the 15 of June.

Art In The Pearl®, Portland Oregon's annual Fine Arts & Crafts Festival, occurs every year on Labor Day weekend.

Art in the Pearl is a lovely event. Really well attended and what an opportunity for artists who are able to partake in the show.

Through vision, leadership, and service, the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) works to integrate arts and culture in all aspects of community life. RACC serves the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Region, including Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties.RACC provides grants for artists, nonprofit organizations and schools; manages an internationally acclaimed public art program; raises money and awareness for the arts through workplace giving; convenes forums, networking events and other community gatherings; provides workshops and other forms of technical assistance for artists; and oversees a program to integrate arts and culture into the standard curriculum in public schools throughout the region through "The Right Brain Initiative.

I have always been a dancer so the art world surrounding dance has always been one of a fascination for me. Oregon Ballet Theatre is really big in Portland where I am from and I grew up attending all of there shows, such as Swan Lake or The Nutcracker. They are preform the rendition of Swan Lake on the 26th of this month and I would highly recommend going!

Thursday, April 3rd , 2014 - 6pm to 9pm Upcoming "First Thursday" dates in 2014 April 3rd, May 1st, June 5th, July 3rd, August 7th, September 4th, October 2nd, November 6th, December 4th (Gallery listings will be updated approximately one week before the First Thursday of each month ) Please join these fine galleries for an evening of Art, music and refreshments.Scroll down to view all the gallery shows............